A Sub-Inspector (SI) of Police, Maroof Shah, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in a suspected incident of target killing in the Sheikh Muhammadi area of Badhaber in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on April 8, reports The Khorasan Diary.
A most-wanted Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ‘commander’, identified as Hazrat Ali alias Gagga, was killed in a ground offense by Security Forces (SFs) in the Tirah Valley of Khyber District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on April 7, reports The Express Tribune. The operation was aimed at eliminating the remnants of the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) outfit, who trying to settle in the Tirah Valley, while coming from neighbouring Afghanistan. LI was led by Mangal Bagh, who joined TTP, was later killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan January 28, 2021. Gagga was stated to the main operational commander of LI.
The body of a Frontier Corps (FC) personnel was found in Tank District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on April 8, reports The Khorasan Diary. The FC personnel who was deputed in Wana area of South Waziristan, went missing on April 6, 2024.